Creating the worlds strongest sword?

This will probably not be answered since it is a old forum but couldn't you just make a sword that is made out of steel but just add some tungsten to it not like meld them together (though that may work i have no idea i am not a blacksmith) but like melt the tungsten though it would be hard to do since tungsten is heat resistant but if you did it pour it on the blade then temper it that could work

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don't be mean to me guys i am not a master of smiting i know this may sound stupid but what if it could work

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As with any dense sword, tungsten would be very brittle. Tungsten titanium alloy would be a good mix between the two as titanium would combat the brittleness.
"Strongest". That to me means the least likely to break or chip and the most likely to keep it's edge.
The more flexible something is the less likely it's going to chip or break. But to be a good sword you don't want them to be so malleable that they can't make a clean cut.
Diamond is one of the most useful cutting tools due to its hardness, however if chipped at from the wrong angle it's very brittle. Hard metals are the same way.
Tungsten titanium carbide could very well be a great sword, and with the advances in technology be made very precisely. Yet the more cost effective and reasonable choice would still be a good carbon steel.
Many professionals including combat reenactors and swordsmiths prefer this over others due that's is widely known how to make properly and that it's flexible yet doesn't give up its structure.

Er what?
Lead (you must have heard of it - it's a dense metal) isn't known for being brittle. neither is gold.
Pure tungsten, also, is NOT brittle - being ductile enough to be drawn into wire.
It's contaminated tungsten that's brittle.

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Er what?
Lead (you must have heard of it - it's a dense metal) isn't known for being brittle. neither is gold.
Pure tungsten, also, is NOT brittle - being ductile enough to be drawn into wire.
It's contaminated tungsten that's brittle.

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I didn't refrence density I stated hardness. Gold while dense is quite malleable, and also not what I was talking about.

Now if you're done with those ad hominem attacks could we proceed with what this thread was originally for.

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Oh dear.
A) They weren't ad hom attacks: you CLEARLY AND DEMONSTRABLY wrote something that was incorrect, although, apparently, what you wrote you didn't mean. The words are right there in your posts, despite your denial of them.
B) You also got it wrong about tungsten being brittle.

Oh dear.
A) They weren't ad hom attacks: you CLEARLY AND DEMONSTRABLY wrote something that was incorrect, although, apparently, what you wrote you didn't mean. The words are right there in your posts, despite your denial of them.
B) You also got it wrong about tungsten being brittle.

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Im not saying in any way that I did not put that there I'm saying that, that it's not the word I should have put to adequately convey my idea.
And being brittle in comparison to the carbon steel in which I alluded to.